Steven W. Moffat is a British TV writer. After he established himself as a comedic writer early on in his career, writing the sitcoms 'Couplings' and 'Press Gang' in the 1990's, he later-on also became well-known as an horror and adventure writer throughout the 2000's, writing for the revival of popular BBC science-fiction show 'Doctor Who', receiving the most BAFTA awards any 'Doctor Who' writer has ever received for his scripts for the show. From 2010 on, he took over as show runner of 'Doctor Who' from Russell T. Davies, passing the job on to Chris Chibnall in 2018 after Series 10. In 2010, he also created BBC's literary adaptation crime series 'Sherlock' with Mark Gatiss, on which they concluded their work in 2017 after four series, after it had become an international success and made it's title stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman world-famous. In 2011, he wrote the script for a major Hollywood blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's 'The Adventures of Tintin'. 2020, he continued work with Gatiss, as they created another literary adaptation for the BBC, 'Dracula'. He is one of Britain's most distinguished and well-known TV writers.
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Biography from TMDB.
- November 18, 1961 (64)
- Paisley, Scotland, UK
- Writer and producer, also actor
- 24 on MovieCove · 77 credits in all
What are Steven Moffat's films like?
Across their 14 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 7
Light 7 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
Grounded 3 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 1
Gentle 5 · Charged 3 · Intense 0
Steady 5 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 4
A split, not a type: Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 3
Casual 5 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 6 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
Resolved 8 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet7
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Steven Moffat's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 24 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (3).
- BritBox
Subscription and free streaming for Steven Moffat's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
77 credits, 24 with a MovieCove page; 16 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Douglas Is Cancelled(2024)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Doctor Who(2023)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all shows
The Devil's Hour(2022)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
Inside Man(2022)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all shows
The Time Traveler's Wife(2022)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
Dracula(2020)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Class(2016)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all shows
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
The Ultimate Time Lord(2014)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Sherlock: Many Happy Returns (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: The Last Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: Clara and the TARDIS (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who: Rain Gods (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who: The Inforarium (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who at the Proms(2013)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: Clarence and the Whispermen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who: She Said, He Said (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)
Doctor Who: The Snowmen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Bad Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: First Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Good Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who - Night and The Doctor: Last Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who - Night and the Doctor: Up All Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who: Vastra Investigates (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who: The Great Detective (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Pond Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
The Women of Doctor Who(2012)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: Good as Gold (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe Prequel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
The Adventures of Tintin(2011)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song Prequel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who Motion Comic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who: Let’s Kill Hitler Prequel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - Prequel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Come in Number Five (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut Prequel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 1 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Doctor Who at the Proms (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Sherlock(2010)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Doctor Who: The End of Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Doctor Who: Time Crash(2007)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Jekyll (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Paris in the Springtime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Doctor Who(2005)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Doctor Who Confidential (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Coupling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Coupling(2000)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Chalk (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
The Office (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Joking Apart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Exam Conditions (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Murder Most Horrid(1991)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all shows
Stay Lucky (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Press Gang (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Jekyll (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Number 10 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 77 titles, 75 of them dated from 1989 to 2024.
Biggest box office
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Highest rated
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
Most popular right now
Doctor Who (2023)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
2 Primetime Emmys and 5 BAFTA Awards from 17 major nominations, 1991–2018.
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Television Movie
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Television Movie
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Television Movie
- Producers Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Miniseries or Movie
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Writer
- BAFTA Award, won
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Drama Series
Show 3 earlier yearsShow fewer
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Writer
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Children's Programme (Fiction)
- BAFTA Award, won · Best Children's Programme (Entertainment/Drama)
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Steven Moffat's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 95th percentile, the median of all 13; across their 8 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 96th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up18
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
11 of their 24 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved11
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the dialogue 72/100 and the plot and story 64/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Steven Moffat's work okay for kids?
Across up to 7 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Steven Moffat work with?
People who share at least 2 of Steven Moffat's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sue Vertue shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Paul McGuiganShared titles: Inside Man (2022), Dracula (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Paul McGuigan
Writers
- Sydney NewmanShared titles: Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), Meanwhile, in the TARDIS: Part 2 (2010), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007), Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)See all 4 shared titles with Sydney Newman
- C.E. WebberShared titles: Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007), Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)See all 3 shared titles with C.E. Webber
- Donald WilsonShared titles: Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007), Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)See all 3 shared titles with Donald Wilson
- Mark GatissShared titles: Dracula (2020), An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Mark Gatiss
Actors
- Karen GillanShared titles: Douglas Is Cancelled (2024), The Ultimate Time Lord (2014), Meanwhile, in the TARDIS: Part 2 (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Karen Gillan
- Matt SmithShared titles: The Ultimate Time Lord (2014), The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013), Meanwhile, in the TARDIS: Part 2 (2010)See all 3 shared titles with Matt Smith
- Nicholas BriggsShared titles: Doctor Who (2023), An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Nicholas Briggs
- David TennantShared titles: Inside Man (2022), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)See all 2 shared titles with David Tennant
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Ceres DoyleShared titles: Doctor Who (2023), Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013), The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)See all 4 shared titles with Ceres Doyle
- David ArnoldShared titles: Douglas Is Cancelled (2024), Dracula (2020)See all 2 shared titles with David Arnold
- Murray GoldShared titles: Doctor Who (2023), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Murray Gold
- Tony Slater LingShared titles: Inside Man (2022), Dracula (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Tony Slater Ling
Producers
- Sue VertueShared titles: Douglas Is Cancelled (2024), Inside Man (2022), The Time Traveler's Wife (2022), Dracula (2020), Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)See all 5 shared titles with Sue Vertue
- Brian MinchinShared titles: The Time Traveler's Wife (2022), Class (2016), The Ultimate Time Lord (2014), The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (2013)See all 4 shared titles with Brian Minchin
- Julie GardnerShared titles: Doctor Who (2023), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Julie Gardner
- Phil CollinsonShared titles: Doctor Who (2023), Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)See all 2 shared titles with Phil Collinson
